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What’s in the water these days? My first two years at Oxy I only saw a few fights at parties. This semester, though, it has been out of control. It seems that every other weekend people are getting into fights, who even knows over what. While I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, last night’s occurrence was so absurd that I felt it was time to address this.
A few friends of mine threw a party Saturday night. To my understanding, at some point at the party a fight broke out that resulted in serious damage to some furniture. Personally, if I opened up my house to fellow students and that happened, I would never throw another party. I don’t think anybody wants people to stop throwing parties. The Oxy social scene definitely does not need that.
So I’m just suggesting that we all just tone down this machismo crap, and chill out. Look out for your friends that are too drunk and belligerent. As entertaining as it can be to watch your roommate throw a trash can, try to keep them from trying to fight that guy that ‘disrespected him by looking at him funny.’ Tell him it’s not worth it. Tell him to just drink his beer and chill. Tell him to relax so he doesn’t accidentally knock down that cute girl he’s hitting on. At the very least, get them to take it outside where nobody else is going to get hurt. And if none of that works, get him to smoke some weed. That usually does the trick.
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